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[num123]

We you realize we have states that are bigger than entire countries, you understand why we will never be a nation of cyclists.
I'm assuming that's the netherlands. Maryland is bigger than their entire country.

That makes no sense. The point is that cities can be made much more safer and efficient with more planning for bike traffic. The Netherlands in the 70's looked a lot like America with the amount of cars it had on the road in cities, but they changed it for more bike and pedestrian/public transportation and have been doing good since.

Even in the early 20th century a bunch of American cities had light rail/Street cars/ Trolleys before they were ripped out for more cars:

Story of cities #29: Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal'

When LA was stripped of its beloved streetcar in the 1960s, the city was quickly thrust into a traffic-clogged world of private cars and diesel buses. But with the involvement of automobile and oil companies, was this the work of a conspiracy?

www.theguardian.com

Decline of Streetcars in American Cities – Science Technology and Society a Student Led Exploration

opentextbooks.clemson.edu

The real story behind the demise of America’s once-mighty streetcars

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money...

www.vox.com

Infrastructure: Mass Transit in 19th- and 20th-Century Urban America

"Infrastructure: Mass Transit in 19th- and 20th-Century Urban America" published on by Oxford University Press.

oxfordre.com

 

[Remote]

I'm pro transit and walkable neighborhoods but I can't co sign this pro bicycle shyt lol


Who is trying to ride a bike in Florida or Arizona during the summer By the time you get to your destination you are gonna be a hot sweaty mess.

Florida is the flattest state in America.
There might be no state in the country that needs bicycle infrastructure MORE than Florida.

 

[the bossman]

My point is we plenty of places like this in our country

We need more. There's not enough. No one is saying bike state to state. But there should be way more walkable/bikeable neighborhoods within cities. There's very few in America and majority are expensive AF

 

[Gritsngravy]

work 12 hours and then have to bike home for another 2 hours, brehs

Can u imagine folks after they Amazon shift they about to bike home

 

[Remote]

We need more. There's not enough. No one is saying bike state to state. But there should be way more walkable/bikeable neighborhoods within cities. There's very few in America and majority are expensive AF

People online always make this mistake where they think it's either cars or bicycles.

It's BOTH.

 

[Estarossa]

I live in the “suburbs” a bike ain’t taking me nowhere I need to go and I’m not getting on no damn bus or metro.

 

[KBtheKey]

That’s cool and all until you have to take a ride that’s normally 20 minutes in a car and it’s an hour and a half on a bike.

You could get a cheaper vehicle for longer trips. Bike for shorter distances plus the addition of getting a lil exercise doesn't hurt one bit

 

[the bossman]

Americans as a collective are regressive. They hate different ways of thinking. They love spending their money on gas guzzlers. They have held back progress just to cling to an aging way of life.

Country of sitting.
Sit in some gas guzzler for an hourly work commute to go sit in some office chair for 8 hours. Sit in the gas guzzler for another hour back home to eat and go sit on the couch to watch Netflix til bed. Rinse repeat

 

[African Peasant]

My point is we plenty of places like this in our country. But we not going to get the credit of Netherlands because unlike them its not feasible for us to do it for the majority of our country. You want like they live in the netherlands move to Cambrige MA

Not feasible based on what?

MOST cities in the US can do it

 

[Luke Cage]

Not feasible based on what?

MOST cities in the US can do it

Not feasible to do it for half a billion people. Netherlands only has 17 million people.
We have bike transit for more people than that already from a pure numbers perspective.
Mile for mile there are more bike lanes in america than there are in the netherlands.
Your complaint is why can't we do it for 600 million people? My answer is they can't do it for 600 million people either.

 

[bnew]

We you realize we have states that are bigger than entire countries, you understand why we will never be a nation of cyclists.
I'm assuming that's the netherlands. Maryland is bigger than their entire country.

at one point the united states was at the forefront of cycling infrastructure. cycling is the reason we first had paved roads not cars.

 

[maxamusa]

OP would be roadkill trying to bike from San Antonio to Houston

 

[Canada Goose]

and I’m not getting on no damn bus or metro.

You are lucky to have the option of both. In my Florida suburb there's only buses and the service is especially from the perspective of someone who came from NYC. Like the bus routes run once an hour THE WHOLE DAY, NO bump in frequencies for rush hour


Crazy how most of the U.S has such snobby view of public transportation. In NYC celebrities and such be riding public transit. Even in the NY Tri State Area in certain suburbs people with a decent income won't touch the local buses with a ten foot pole but will ride the commuter rail trains (LIRR and Metro North for example). Westchester county you never see white collar office worker types on the Bee Line bus but you always see them on Metro North.

 

[Luke Cage]

at one point the united states was at the forefront of cycling infrastructure. cycling is the reason we first had paved roads not cars.

we still have more paved bike paths than the netherlands does.
they are comparing infrastructure for 17 million to 600 million.

 

[Remote]

OP would be roadkill trying to bike from San Antonio to Houston

I don't live in San Antonio, maxamu